239. Rulers need wise men far more than wise men need rulers.
81. To criticize is to show the author that he does not do what I would do if I knew how. (K. Čapek)
204. Flattery is the honey and seasoning in all communication between people. (Erasmus of Rotterdam)
100. Wealth is the savings of many in the hands of one. (Y. Tuwim)
177. Nothing travels faster than word of mouth. (Seneca)
8. The only condition on which success depends is patience. (L. Tolstoy)
35. The crime of the wicked is a temptation for many. (W. Feder)
178. The invasion of armies can be resisted, but the invasion of ideas cannot be resisted.
138. Victories are prepared before battles begin.
217. One of the most astonishing misconceptions is the misconception that happiness lies in doing nothing.
110. If no one loves you, rest assured it is your own fault. (F. Doddridge)
68. Don't talk about triumph before victory. (Publius Syrus)
56. Referring to the bad actions of others is like washing yourself in mud. (J. Pshi-Sen)
183. What the soul desires, the hands will follow.
79. Life is a comedy for him who thinks, and a tragedy for him who feels. (Epicurus)
187. People could not live in society if they did not lead each other by the nose. (Laroche Foucault)
94. When a person has embarked on the path of deception, he is inevitably forced to pile one lie upon another.
76. And before consulting with whim, consult with your purse. (Benjamin Franklin)
216. Happiness, like health, is there when you don't notice it.
186. Today, as soon as you approach a door, it opens automatically; as soon as you approach a person, he automatically closes. (P. Salvorsen)
225. In the day of prosperity, make use of the good, but in the day of adversity, reflect. (Ecclesiastes 7:14)
10. The function of science in the life of society is to ensure governance in all areas of social activity in accordance with a specific concept given to society by the holders of conceptual power. (USSR Supreme Soviet)
147. The people need not abstract ideas, but truisms. (A. Rivarol)
133. Success depends largely on the state of one's own spirit, on the firmness of one's intentions, and on the inflexibility of one's character.
82. You do harm if you praise; but even more harm if you criticize what you yourself understand little about. (L. da Vinci)
247. Nature knows no goals; it can only count results. (S. A. Podolinsky)
229. If you don't succeed right away, try again and again. And then calm down and live for your own pleasure. (K. Fields)
170. If there is the highest of pleasures, it is the pleasure of creation. (N. Gogol)
89. The lazy are always planning to do something. (L. Vauvenargues)
32. If anyone wants to rebel alone against the universe, I advise him to flee, as Timon did, into the desert and there, in solitude, enjoy his wisdom. (Erasmus of Rotterdam)
173. Labor is the consumption of mechanical and mental work accumulated in the body, which results in an increase in the amount of convertible energy on the earth's surface. (S. A. Podolinsky)
80. It is easy to criticize an author, difficult to appreciate him. (J. La Bruyère)
198. There are people who prefer to think about bees stinging than about them producing honey. (E. Krotky)
236. If the state is governed correctly, poverty and low birth are shameful. If the state is governed incorrectly, then poverty and high birth are also shameful. (Confucius)
151. Agriculture depletes the soil only when it is conducted unwisely, in a predatory manner. (S. A. Podolinsky)
164. He who wants, does; he who does not, shows off. (N. Vekshin)
142. I treat people well because I expect nothing good from them. (O. Brik)
149. There are countries that were once rich and were reduced to near-deserts, but such events were too clearly dependent on economic mismanagement. (S. A. Podolinsky)
209. Before jumping to conclusions, make sure you're looking at things from the other side.
4. Destroy the social side of a person, and you'll get a ferocious orangutan. (A. Herzen)
233. A capable administrator will propose or carry out the transfer of personnel, changes in reporting, restructuring of the apparatus, etc. (V. I. Lenin)
9. Better to learn late than never. (Aesop)
136. It is easier to say a new word than to reconcile words already spoken. (J. La Bruyère)
102. For most people, conscience is nothing more than a fear of the opinions of others. (D. Taylor)
108. No one is smart enough alone. (Titus Plautus)
19. Virtue and vice, moral good and evil, in all countries are determined by whether a given phenomenon is useful or harmful to society. (Voltaire)
57. A noble man knows only duty, a base man knows only self-interest. (Confucius)
245. War… is just for those for whom it is inevitable, and arms are pious in the hands of those who have no hope left. (Machiavelli, The Prince)
48. If swindlers knew all the advantages of honesty, they would stop cheating for profit.
64. The worse the wheel, the louder it creaks. (A. Rivarol)
156. Our purpose is not to seek better situations elsewhere, but to make better the ones we find ourselves in.
163. Each person is like a letter in the alphabet; to form a word, one must merge with others. (O. Maldestam)
37. The greatest encouragement to crime is impunity. (Cicero)
128. Never hold people by the button or the hand to make them listen to you; if they don't want to listen to you, better hold your tongue. (F. Chesterton)
196. A family is a group of people united by blood ties and divided over money matters. (E. Ray)
51. All the world's problems arise from the fact that fools and fanatics are always overconfident, while intelligent people are full of doubts. (Bernard Russell)
22. The reward for a good deed is its performance.
15. The thoughts of living beings are similar – they all strive for what is pleasant and avert what is unpleasant. Understand this and do not do to others what you yourself do not desire. (Vedas)
69. Brevity is the sister of wit. (A. Chekhov)
55. The fact that someone is worse than you does not make you better. (V. Borisov)
116. A fool pursues pleasures and finds them; a wise man only avoids grief. (A. Schopenhauer)
155. A person can only claim as much joy and happiness as he gives to others.
160. Each person should be expected to give what he can.
33. Two things make a man godlike: living for the good of society and truthfulness. (Pythagoras)
126. He who does nothing himself loves to lecture others. (Mongolian proverb)
215. Carelessness is most often the source of misfortune. (P. Velleius)
85. Hatred and flattery are the pitfalls on which truth is broken.
99. Excessive pride is the sign of a worthless soul. (I. Turgenev)
60. Success gives many things, but not friends. (J. La Bruyère)
248. It is incorrect to call the planet Earth, since most of it is ocean, not land. 31. Admit a wise man to a banquet, and he will immediately confuse everyone with sullen silence or inappropriate questions. (Erasmus of Rotterdam)
137. Wisdom has no need of violence.
181. The madness of one is an aberration, the madness of the crowd is fashion.
98. Cunning helps only once, and then only hinders.
134. Good taste speaks less of intelligence than of clarity of judgment. (F. La Rochefoucauld)
101. If you are told, "My wealth was acquired through hard work," ask, "Whose?" (Don Marquis)
165. He who wants to do something finds a means. He who does not want to do anything finds an excuse. (Arabic proverb)
121. A special kind of slavery, both in society and in the family, is spiritual slavery, when the strong will of one paralyzes the will of another, turning them into unthinking stand-ins.
214. Happiness makes friends, misfortune tests them. (Publius Syrus)
104. Those who wear blinders should remember that the kit also includes a bit and a whip. (E. Lets)
218. By caring for the happiness of others, we find our own. (Plato)
46. Any skirmish with a deaf-mute, an idiot, or a teenager is fraught with anxiety, for you are responsible for it, but they are not. (Mishnah)
18. You must make good out of evil, because there is nothing else to make it out of. (R. Warren)
174. God gave us relatives; thank God that we can choose our friends.
246. And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. (John 8:32)
207. If weapons breed crime, then pencils breed grammatical errors.
202. A promising person promises much, but delivers nothing.
189. We like other people's things better, others like ours. (Publius Syrus)
3. The well-being of a people, the optimal structure of society, and the future of a country are determined by the existing level of community, which should be fostered by the system of upbringing and education. Without community, there will be nothing.
62. Saying is not doing. (Publilius Syrus)
195. Through art, spirit speaks to spirit; matter is only the avenue through which communication takes place. (G. Grimm)
97. Cunning is a sign of a narrow-minded mind. (F. La Rochefoucauld)
123. There is nothing more shameful than being useless to society and to oneself, and having the intelligence to do nothing.
23. Let him who has done a good deed be silent. Let him who has received it speak. (Seneca)
146. Our dignity lies not in the mastery of space, but in the ability to think rationally. I do not become richer, no matter how much land I acquire, because with space the Universe embraces and absorbs me, but with thought I embrace the Universe. (B. Pascal)
5. We give advice by the bucketful and take it by the drop.
65. Do not argue with chatterboxes: speech is given to everyone, reason to few. (A. Claudius)
112. You cannot belittle a person without being humbled by him. (D. Washington)
83. It is typical of a bad person to praise and criticize the same things. (Latin proverb)
26. Politeness is the hygiene of human relations. (A. Kruglov)
191. Trust given usually evokes loyalty in return. (T. Livy)
194. The criterion of truth is experience. (T. Campanella)
70. The path of precepts is long, but short and successful is example. (Seneca)
6. Schoolteachers wield power that prime ministers can only dream of. (W. Churchill)
231. The voice of a clear conscience is sweeter than a hundred voices of glory.
175. Time hates to be wasted. (Henry Ford)
21. All the fine feelings in the world weigh less than one good deed. (D. Lowell)
40. You cannot make a villain good. No matter how much you wash your anus, it will not become an eye. (Vedas)
91. All malice is the result of weakness.
58. When self-interest is the only motive, malice multiplies.
95. The surest sign of truth is simplicity and clarity. A lie is always complex, pretentious, and verbose. (L. Tolstoy)
210. A man digs his own grave with a knife and fork. (Old proverb)
179. Ideas become a material force if they take hold of the masses.
88. Laziness, like rust, corrodes faster than labor wears it out. (B. Franklin)
206. Change your opinions, keep your principles: change your leaves, keep your roots. (Victor Hugo)
148. All information should be adapted to the perception of society.
153. There are two paths to rise in this world: through one's own hard work or at the expense of others' stupidity.
36. Unpunished evil increases. (Vedas)
41. When a thief, caught by Demosthenes, said to him, "I didn't know this was yours," Demosthenes replied, "But you knew it wasn't yours." (Demosthenes)
39. For evil to triumph, only one condition is necessary: for good people to sit idle. (E. Burke)
90. Anger is a momentary madness.
109. Only fools and the dead never change their minds. (D. Lowam)
114. Foolish people believe in luck, strong people in cause and effect. (R. Emerson)
111. A person who cannot sacrifice the personal for the sake of a greater goal will achieve nothing in life.
185. A recession is when your neighbor loses his job; a crisis is when you lose your job. (H. Truman)
224. Even those who want to make others happy by force are oppressors. (D. Eremić)
184. You work for others, but the skill remains with you. (Kyrgyz proverb)
145. One of the first precautions is to balance desires and possibilities. (S. Mikhalkov)
152. Only a society with a desire to quickly accumulate energy can move forward quickly. (S. A. Podolinsky)
158. A person is his own creditor and the issuing center of his money, or rather, the subject of his energetic obligations to others. (V.P.)
205. Man really is like a monkey: the higher he climbs, the more he shows his backside.
220. The fool seeks happiness afar; the wise man cultivates it close to him. (R. Oppenheim)
45. If you try to please everyone, you will end up pleasing no one. (A. Graf)
71. A clear mind gives to the soul what health gives to the body. (J. La Bruyère)
235. To govern people, one needs intelligence. (N. Chamfort)
63. Language is our tool; when using it, we must take care that its springs do not creak. (A. Rivarol)
243. Cooperation, not competition, must be the motto of humanity if humanity is to survive. (Margrit Kennedy)
201. As soon as an action is explained by complex reasoning, be sure that it is bad. (L. Tolstoy)
72. Where style is obscure, error reigns. (A. Rivarol)
92. A lie is a very inadequate substitute for the truth, yet it is still widely circulated among people. (M. Larney)
78. The same means that enable a man to become rich prevent him from enjoying his wealth. (B. Pascal)
13. If people achieve inner harmony, they will achieve harmony in the family, and if they achieve harmony in the family, harmony will reign in the state.
154. We have no right to consume happiness without producing it. (Bernard Shaw)
125. By doing nothing, people learn to do evil. (Latin proverb)
232. When there are too many helmsmen, the ship will be stranded. (A. Fayol)
244. The greatest obstacle to transforming the monetary system is the fact that very few understand the problem, and even fewer know that a solution exists. (Margrit Kennedy)
115. If you trust too much, you can be deceived, but if you trust too little, you condemn yourself to constant torment. (B. Crane)
14. Any human action that conflicts with moral principles does not go unpunished: if you take, it will be taken from you; if you give, it will be given to you; if you do nothing, nothing will be done to you; If you destroy, you will be destroyed; if you create, you will be created for. Where you begin, so will you end, and if you do not witness the retribution yourself, your children and grandchildren will.
84. Ignorance is the twilight where evil lurks. (V. Hugo)
213. Those whom medicines don't cure, nature cures.
61. Before you say something to others, say it to yourself.
129. Whatever others think of you, do what you think is right. (Pythagoras)
171. He who has experienced the joy of creativity, for him all other pleasures no longer exist. (A. Chekhov)
53. A wise man differs from a fool in that he thinks to the end. (A. Maikov)
106. Learning is most intolerable in a fool.
27. Nothing costs us so little and is valued so highly as politeness. (M. Cervantes)
238. To govern is to do right. If in governing you do right, who will dare to do wrong? (Confucius)
192. We are never so grateful for anything as for gratitude. (M. Ebner-Eschenbach)
180. Ideas can be neutralized only by ideas.
135. He who has the courage to confess his actions must find peace. (F. La Rochefoucauld)
240. Desire is the measure of value. (B. Gracian)
11. The amount of convertible energy introduced by a teacher into the budget of humanity can be quite significant. Suppose that, by teaching the peasants of his community arithmetic, the teacher frees them from a whole series of petty deceptions. (S. A. Podolinsky)
176. Time is money.
144. Moderation multiplies the joys of life. (Democritus)
166. Do you know what you must do to keep up? You must move forward.
227. Titles and honors are invented for those whose services to the country are indisputable, but unknown to the people of that country. (B. Shaw)
159. Weak people wait for favorable opportunities, strong people create them. (A. Afinogenov)
113. People are lonely because instead of bridges, they build walls. (NN)
20. A good deed is performed with effort; but when the effort is repeated several times, it becomes a habit.
73. When too much energy is spent on promises, too little remains for fulfillment. (K. Simonov)
212. Exercise can replace many medicines. But no medicine in the world can replace exercise.
118. Reason is given to man so that he may live wisely, and not merely so that he may see that he lives foolishly. (V. Belinsky)
242. The whole secret of business is to know something that no one else knows. (A. Onassis)
228. True glory consists in doing what is worth doing and writing what is worth reading. (Pliny)
16. He who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth, and he who gives to the rich, will become poor. (Bible, Proverbs, Chapter 22:16)
47. We are just when we are not self-interested! (B. Constant)
168. Let generosity never exceed opportunity. (Publius Syrus)
59. If you feel no love for others, sit quietly.
124. He who fans the flames of strife and stirs up the firebrands should not complain if sparks fall in his face.
130. Do well, and let them say what they want. (A. Dumas, père)
24. Remorse begins where impunity ends. (K. Helvetsky)
12. Disrespect for ancestors is the first sign of immorality.
30. Mercy is preferable to justice.
28. Gratitude is the result of a high level of moral development. You will not find it among ill-mannered people. (S. Johnson)
139. What you sow in youth, you will reap in maturity. (G. Ibsen)
25. Life is not so short that people do not have time for politeness. (R. Emerson)
66. Everyone complains about their memory, but no one complains about their mind. (F. La Rochefoucauld)
141. Hate the bad in a person, but love him. (L. Tolstoy)
219. To be happy, one must constantly strive for this happiness and accept it. It depends not on circumstances, but on oneself.
143. It often happens that it is better to ignore an insult than to avenge it later.
107. He who asks nothing will learn nothing. (T. Fuller)
200. A person is like a fraction: its numerator is what he is, and the denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
167. Generosity consists not in giving a lot, but in giving at the right time. (J. La Bruyère)
221. After those who occupy the highest positions, I know of no more unhappy people than those who envy them. (F. Maintenon)
182. Everyone can find freedom if only they know how to limit themselves and find themselves. (W. Goethe)
230. Diligence is the mother of success. (M. Cervantes)
17. What people call fate is, in essence, only the sum of their own stupid actions. (A. Schopenhauer)
103. An oath is a guarantee, useless with honest people and deceptive with others. (A. Decourcelle)
241. If you demand a reward that exceeds your merits and it is refused, blame yourself, for you asked for more than your due. (Abu al-Faraj)
87. Laziness is the daughter of wealth and the mother of poverty. (A. Decoussal)
140. If strength is united with justice, what could be stronger than this union? (Eskil)
86. No one hurries others like the lazy: having indulged their laziness, they want to seem diligent. (F. La Rochefoucauld)
122. Parents work, children enjoy life, grandchildren are beggars. (Japanese proverb)
96. Insults are the arguments of the unjust.
188. Human relationships are a mutually beneficial egoism.
157. "We have what we need if we use what we have." (Dr. Edgar Kahn)
120. Family interests almost always ruin public interests.
49. Whose army is the strongest is the peacemaker.
43. A thief is not only someone who illegally took what they need, but also someone who keeps what they don't need for themselves, not giving it to others.
237. When the state is governed according to reason, poverty and want are shameful; When a state is not governed according to reason, riches and honors are shameful. (Confucius)
223. If one or two kind words can make a person happy, one would have to be a scoundrel to deny them. (T. Penn)
208. No amount of reasoning can show a person a path he does not want to see. (R. Rolland)
67. A person's character has more flaws than his mind. (F. La Rochefoucauld)
7. Once you've silenced a man, you haven't convinced him. (D. Morley)
172. There are two incentives to work in the broad sense of the word: need, the sad necessity of working for a living, the curse of labor inflicted on the seed of Adam, condemned to eat their daily bread by the sweat of their brow. And there is another incentive: the thirst for interesting, enjoyable, exciting work—work that provides inner satisfaction. Such work "to the soul" is usually creative work in the broadest sense. (V. Vorovsky)
2. It's difficult to add new thoughts to a head full of stereotypes.
199. There are people who do something decent – and smugly tell the whole world about it. And thus they remain pleasantly busy their entire lives. (V. Belinsky)
131. The ability to speak distinguishes people from the animal world; the ability to remain silent distinguishes man from the world of men. (G. Landau)
42. Violence feeds on submission, like fire on straw. (V. Korolenko)
169. All my efforts have been aimed at reducing stupidity and increasing honesty in people. (Walter)
234. To govern a multitude of people, it is better to be humane than arrogant, and better to be merciful than cruel. (N. Machiavelli)
105. Folly never crosses boundaries. Wherever it steps, there lies its territory. (E. Lets)
117. To err in nothing is a characteristic of the gods. (Demosthenes)
74. A person who tries to change others is wasting his time if he has not started with himself. (I. Loyola)
1. We have little faith in what we find unpleasant to believe. (Ovid)
93. A lie does not cease to be a lie because millions of people use it. (Leo Tolstoy)
34. Do not fear your enemies: at worst, they can kill you. Do not fear your friends: at worst, they can betray you. Fear the indifferent, for with their tacit consent, treason and murder exist on earth. (B. Jasensky)
150. If a society bases its well-being and development on a limited, constantly diminishing resource, then a global problem of the sustainability of human development arises. (S. A. Podolinsky)
190. The better the means of communication, the further man is from man. (J. Kurek)
222. Of all the paths that lead to happiness, the surest are work and perseverance. (L. Reybaud)
193. We are religious enough to hate each other, but not religious enough to love each other. (D. Swift)
52. A wise man demands everything only of himself, but a worthless man demands everything from others. (Chinese Proverb)
119. You call yourself free. Free from what, or free for what? (F. Nietzsche)
197. People are stubborn; they disagree with the most sound judgments not from a lack of insight, but from an excess of pride: they see that the front ranks in a just cause are taken, and they don't want to occupy the back.
211. You can't heal the body without healing the soul. (Socrates)
161. People are born to help each other, as a hand helps a hand, a foot helps a foot, and the upper jaw helps the lower. (M. Aurelius)
132. The awareness of one's own strength multiplies it. (J. La Bruyère)
226. If the amount of energy conserved always corresponded to all the needs of all people, then, of course, there would be neither want nor distress on Earth. (S. A. Podolinsky)
162. With agreement, small things grow; without agreement, great things collapse. (Sallust)
54. A noble man blames himself, a mean man blames others. (Confucius)
77. He who has not found it in himself will find no peace anywhere. (F. La Rochefoucauld)
127. When busy, people speak only when they have something to say, but when idle, the need to talk incessantly arises.
44. If you do a good deed with difficulty, the difficulty will pass, but the good will remain. But if you do a bad deed with pleasure, the pleasure will pass, but the bad will remain. (M. Lomonosov)
75. A man who does not think about what may happen in the future will certainly soon encounter sorrows. (Confucius)
29. He who does not commit injustice is honorable; but more honorable is he who does not allow others to commit injustice. (Plato)
50. Although we think we live in a democracy, over time it will turn out to be an oligarchy at best, and a fascist regime at worst, since money in the hands of an ever-increasing number of people cannot be politically controlled. (Margrit Kennedy)
203. The effort a person makes to conceal their shortcomings is greater than the effort needed to get rid of them.
38. He who does not punish evil contributes to its commission. (L. da Vinci)
